Tuesday 23 June 2020

Healthy Veggie Broccoli Inhibits the Onset of Stomach Cancer in Vitro

By Kyle J. Norton

Cancer is a class of chronic diseases associated with irregular cell growth in the tissues of the affected organ.
The stomach located between the esophagus and the small intestine is a muscular, hollow and important organ of the digestive tract.

The stomach plays a critical role to assist the digestive system in digesting foods by secreting acid and enzymes.

Gastric/Stomach cancer is a medical condition characterized by abnormal growth of the mucus-producing cells of the inside lining of the stomach. Adenocarcinoma is the most common type of gastric/stomach cancer.

According to the statistics, most cases of gastric/stomach cancer are found in older people. The average age of people when they are diagnosed is 68. The risk of developing gastric/stomach cancer in a man lifetime is about 1 in 95.

The causes of gastric cancer are debatable, but some researchers suggested that people with chronic
gastrointestinal reflux disease (GERD), a condition caused by the frequent backflow of stomach acid into the esophagus, is the most likely to develop the disease(4).

Other diseases associated with the early onset of gastric cancer are obesity and smoking(4).

According to the Universidad de Salamanca, bacteria and viruses, including Helicobacter pylori are strongly associated with chronic gastritis, clinical syndromes, precancerous lesions, and pathogenesis of gastric cancer development(5).

Most patients with stomach cancer in the early stage are asymptomatic.

However, at the later stage, patients may experience symptoms of pain and/or discomfort in the stomach area, mild ache in the upper part of the body, difficulty swallowing, feeling full or bloated after a small mealy, and vomiting blood or having blood in the stool accompanied by general symptoms shared by other types of cancer, including unintentional weight loss, loss of energy, tiredness, nausea, and vomiting and loss of appetite.

Broccoli is a mustard/cabbage plant, belongings to the family Brassicaceae. The veggie has large flower heads, usually green in color with a mass of flower heads surrounded by leaves and evolved from a wild cabbage plant from the continent of Europe.

On findings a natural wholefood for the prevention of chronic disease, researchers examined the inhibitory effect of SFN, a bioactive compound found in broccoli on gastric cancer.

According to the results of differentiation, SFN treatment significantly decreases the tumorsphere formation and the expression levels of gastric cancer stem cells (CSCs) markers.

Furthermore, SFN exerted inhibitory effects by suppressing proliferation and inducing apoptosis in gastric CSCs.

Moreover, Intriguingly, SFN inhibited the activation of Sonic Hh, a key pathway in maintaining the stemness of gastric CSCs.
Based on the results, researchers wrote, "Collectively, these data revealed that SFN could be a potent natural compound targeting gastric CSCs via suppression of the Sonic Hh pathway, which might be a promising agent for gastric cancer intervention".

Taken altogether, broccoli may process anti stomach cancer activity, pending to the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)

Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bioscience, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) Sulforaphane inhibits gastric cancer stem cells via suppressing sonic hedgehog pathway by Ge M1, Zhang L1, Cao L1, Xie C2, Li X2, Li Y2, Meng Y2, Chen Y2, Wang X2, Chen J2, Zhang Q2, Shao J1, Zhong C. (PubMed)
(2) Stomach cancer by Mayo Clinic
(3) [Microorganisms and cancer: scientific evidence and new hypotheses].[Article in Spanish] by Velázquez E1, Peix A, Gómez-Alonso A(PubMed)
(4) Stomach cancer statistics (Canadian cancer society)

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